Nancy Yao, who was criticized for her handling of sexual harassment allegations at a New York museum, withdrew from a prestige post as the Smithsonian’s founding director of a new women’s history museum “due to family issues that require her attention.”
at MOCA’s Collections and Research Center. For all the positive publicity and goodwill generated by the fire-recovery effort, Yao still clashed at times with longtime museum supporters and others in Chinatown who accused her of accepting grant money from the administration of then-New York Mayor Bill de Blasio in return for allegedly supporting a city plan to build a massive jail in Chinatown. Yao vigorously denied doing so.
While Yao was engaged in a very public clash with some in the Chinatown community, she was also enmeshed in a deepening crisis behind closed doors because of internal criticism of her handling of sexual harassment allegations. In 2021, three different former MOCA employees filed wrongful-termination lawsuits alleging that they’d been fired in retaliation for reporting sexual harassment complaints on behalf of young female staffers.
In responses to questions from The Post in preparation for that article, the Smithsonian said it was hiring a firm to conduct “a more comprehensive review of the underlying facts and will reevaluate the situation once that is complete. We take these allegations seriously and want to ensure a fair and more comprehensive review.
Yao told The Post that she was first contacted by the Smithsonian about the women’s history museum job in late 2022. The Smithsonian’s announcement of her hiring coincided with Women’s History Month., “and this is a sort of a cliché phrase — I felt like those people I met at the Smithsonian, they saw me.”
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